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Ben McKay

New Zealand to fund more cancer treatments

The omission of funding for new cancer drugs had overshadowed the NZ government's first budget. (Ben McKay/AAP PHOTOS)

The New Zealand government has cauterised a broken election promise, funding cancer drugs that were overlooked in last month's budget.

Cancer patients were left seething by the coalition's first budget given the National party promised to fund 13 cancer treatments during last year's election campaign.

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